Quicksheet: Your Stripped-Bare Guide to Historical Proof

Quicksheet: Your Stripped-Bare Guide to Historical Proof; Laminated; 2pp; 8.5x11; ISBN: 978-0-8063-2001-4; Item # GPC3872 According to professional genealogist Elizabeth Mills, Proof is a conclusion we reach from a body of evidence. No single source can serve as proof. No one piece of information can provide it. No one bit of evidence can stand alone. To support this thesis, Ms. Mills suggests three ways to arrive at proof: Evaluating the source; evaluating the information; and evaluating and processing the evidence. In the first instance she shows us that a source is a physical container, to be evaluated separately from its contents. In the second instance she demonstrates that each assertion must be evaluated separately. And finally she explains that information is evidence only when relevant to a research question. To define proof once and for all, Ms. Mills then provides a Process Map for Historical Researchers, established on the principle that sources provide information from wh